The civil government of postwar Iraq was headed originally by the High Commissioner, Sir Percy Cox, and his deputy, ColonelArnold Wilson. British reprisals after the murder of a British officer in Najaf failed to restore order. The most striking problem facing the British was the growing anger of the nationalists, who continued to fight against the imposition of British authority. British administration had yet to be established in Iraqi Kurdistan.

CANBERRA, Australia -- Five former dual nationals have been stripped of their Australian citizenship due to their involvement with the Islamic State group overseas, a government minister said Thursday ...Dutton did not identify the five. The DailyTelegraph newspaper in Sydney said they were three men and two women who had flown to Syria and Iraq to join Islamic State group fighters. [THE ISLAMIC STATE ... Australia Broadcasting Corp....

SuhaAbdelhamid’s life has dramatically improved over the past two months — thanks to the removal of fortified roadblocks that had made her daily commute in Iraq’s capital a misery ... After years of sectarian violence that culminated in the Daesh group seizing around a third of Iraq in 2014, Prime MinisterHaiderAbadi declared victory over the militants in December....

Plus.�more disturbing news from�Zimbabwe; no human rights progress in China a decade�after Olympic glory; rebuilding Syria; police brutality in Papua New Guinea; plight of migrant workers abroad; a string of troubling burglaries in Uganda; a new bride's horrific murder in Iraq; and the Japanese medical school which falsified women's grades...� Get the Daily Brief by� email ... ....

While sabotage of power lines is relatively common in Iraq, attacks became a daily occurrence just two days after the protests started in Basra, the country’s main oil hub ... “Our maintenance teams work day and night to repair the damage, but the attacks occur on a daily basis, indicating that they are planned, not random.” The sabotage and the ......